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Fashion designer hotels

A look at collaborations between fashion designers and luxury hotels, from Karl Lagerfeld's Monaco 'odyssey' to Versace's Australian idyll.

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Edinburgh's Hotel Missoni is a collaboration between Italian label Missoni and the Rezidor Hotel Group. www.hotelmissoni.com

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The Grand Piano Suite in Claridge's is a favourite of Diane von Furstenberg - unsurprising considering she designed it.
www.claridges.co.uk

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Milan's fashion-focused guests can choose from a number of stylish properties but Maison Moschino remains a popular choice fashion week after fashion week. Housed in a former railway station, the hotel's rooms are inspired by fairytales.
www.maisonmoschino.com

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The Dior suite at the St. Regis hotel in New York is inspired by the designer's Paris headquarters and features various subtle references to the fashion house as well as impressive Bil Donovan illustrations of vintage Dior designs. www.stregisnewyork.com

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The Armani Hotel brand - currently in Dubai and Milan; Dubai is shown here - aim to provide "the same kind of welcome to guests as [Giorgio Armani] would privately extend to family and friends". www.armanihotels.com

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The Bottega Veneta Suite at the St. Regis Rome aims to be a more refined, demure designer option than some other properties' more brash offerings. www.stregisrome.com

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He may not be widely known in Britain, but Sabyasachi Mukherjee is a big name in India. His taste is now finding a wider audience in London, however, with guests at the 51 Buckingham Gate in London able to check into the Mukherjee-designed Cinema Suite. www.51-buckinghamgate.com
Picture: Joe Plimmer

Picture: Picture: Joe Plimmer

The Alice Temperley-designed tipi: where the worlds of high fashion and simple living collide. Found at One&Only Le Saint Géran, the tipi features a hand-sewn, bejewelled exterior with a white and gold interior which is lit by an antique Murano chandelier.
www.oneandonlyresorts.com

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In Jamaica, Round Hill Hotel & Villas resort has welcomed numerous celebrities and is today the site of a holiday villa belonging to Ralph Lauren. Very familiar with the setting, he has designed the resort's Oceanfront Rooms and Luxurious Villa Suites.
www.roundhill.com

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Hotel Éclat Beijing has taken a playful approach to design. One of its eight new suites, The Real Bape, has been designed by fashion brand Bathing Ape and is crammed with quirky features.
www.eclathotels.com

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Now resident in New York, Hong Kong-born designer Vivienne Tam has created a home-from-home of sorts via the Vivienne Tam Designer Suite at Hotel Icon in Kowloon. The Hong Kong suite is designed to resemble her Manhattan home.
www.hotel-icon.com

On Australia's Gold Coast, Palazzo Versace bills itself as "the world's first fully fashion-brand hotel". The 200-room property features bespoke Versace furniture, Versace fabics and Versace bath products, as well as three restaurants, a spa and gym. www.palazzoversace.com

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Hotel du Petit Moulin in Paris has been designed exclusively by Christian Lacroix, who transformed a 17th-century building into what its owners claim is "a true couture hotel". In practice this means that each room is different.
www.hotelpetitmoulinparis.com
Picture: Christophe Bielsa

Picture: Christophe Bielsa

A more tranquil, rustic property than many of the others featured in this gallery, UXUA Casa Hotel & Spa in Bahia in Brazil is owned and designed by Wilbert Das, who was the long-term creative director of Diesel. Where possible, local craftsmen were enlisted by Wilbert to construct UXUA using traditional building methods and recycled materials.
www.uxua.com

In Florence, Hotel Lungarno was established by Leonardo Ferragamo, who, along with his five siblings, took over the Salvatore Ferragamo fashion house after the death of their father. The hotel interior pays tribute to the original designer.
www.slh.com;www.lungarnocollection.com